hi rachel

the show was great tonight. your the best and so are all your colleagues on MSNBC i wastch them all. they can check my emails or listen to my conversations anytime they want to i talk about you often and personally, i don't give a damn who reads it or listens to it. nice to hear people they stand up for the middle working people.

keep up the good work

your friend,

arlene

"to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States"

We should use Section 8 to explain why the Federal government should concern itself with universal health coverage. Congress is really shirking its duty to look after our welfare.

It is interesting because I was talking to my Tea Party friend and he did say the Republicans want to cut too much out of the budget. This threw me for a loop and does show that the GOP is really out of touch. They are letting the smallest fringe tell them what to do now.

Come on Democrats, grow a spine and start to defend these prgrams!

Great show, Rachel as always!

i have a crushing headache right know from trying to understand paul ryan's medicare plan... so forgive me if my questions seem dumb and my points are not quite on the mark...

is ryan's plan any different than the affordable care act? how can the republicans say it isn't? it is the affordable care act in reverse.

using their own twisted arguments about the afforable care act; isn't this a massive over-reach of the federal government mandating retired people buy a private health-care policy with government subsidies for those who can't afford it? and won't it leave millions uninsured/under-insured?

how can ryan's plan work without the changes the affordable care act provides; no pre-existing conditions, no cancellations if you get sick- you know, all the stuff people like about the affordable care act.

does this mean the republican governors will drop their challenges to the reform law? or do they just not want anyone but the richest to be able to get health-care?

i am going to sleep on this and maybe i can state my points with more clarity in the morning... or somebody can explain this to me in a way that my head won't explode!

To the Michigan Professors re: FOIA Email Request.

I stand with you and if you need it, I will help to start a Legal Defense Fund with my pledge of $100.00 although it is not very much; it is a start and I am sure others will be willing to donate as they are able. I hope you don't need it; but I will be there for you if needed and I am sure others will be there in solidarity as well!

I was impressed with your concise explanation of conservative schizophrenia - laissez-faire small government for corporations vs intrusive big government for human beings. More Democrats should be pointing that out. As far as privatization is concerned, I humbly suggest that The Space Merchants by Pohl and Kornbluth be required reading for all in the executive, legislative and judicial branches.

Rachel,

We Mainiacs are suffering , not only from Muralitis, but also a Tea Party takeover of our state legislature. if you think the Child labor law reversal, the mural and our Gov. LePage quotes are bizarre, take a peak at some of our legislature's recent accomplishments in their efforts to restore our budget and our government-

Declared the Whoppee pie our offcial dessert

Acted to remove uniform building code regs ( no one should tell us we have to build a safe house!)

and.... Enacted a law to give one armed citizens the right to have a switch blade

stay tuned it will only get better.

Appreciated your segment with Melissa H-P. For some time now I have suspected that much of the rabid anti-government/pro-corporate movement on the Right is traceable to the civil rights legislation, EEOC, women's movement, etc. of the 60s and 70s -- i.e. government promoting and facilitating equality.

Wingers like to claim the federal government is illegitimate because it has exceeded the "enumerated powers" set forth in the Constitution. Then the same wingers attack the same enumerated powers and hype powers that are not enumerated. This shows they do not know what "enumerated powers" actually are and are too dumb to find out.

Specifically they attack the Post Office, which is the topic, and which is an enumerated power. They attack the government's right to tax, which is an enumerated power. Then they get all razzed up over the Second Amendment which is not an enumerated power.

Wingers hate the Constitution so much they jump at any excuse to attack it, even when the excuse is lame and transparent.

i love the Post Office (at least in what it does, not necessarily how it operates, the employees; it's a love/hate thing) so if GM had gone under, our postal fleet -- 2nd largest employer in the country! -- would've been left high-and-dry. (btw, they seriously need to go green for the local delivery trucks) but of course Republicans hate Mr. ZIP

personalize... privatize... piratize.

"big, intrusive government" or B.I.G. that's great! was that on purpose?? :)